Twitter launching what looks like a reddit competitor on the same day third party apps shut down

Participating in an Elon ran version of Reddit sounds just as fun as being launched into the sun would be

Look at that, spez's idol being opportunistic against him. Dumbass.

the last place I would want to chat would be with a twitter group

The kind of people still left on Twitter are not the people I want to be sharing a reddit-like community with

twitler can eat an entire bag of dicks

It warms my heart that Twitter spent millions developing a product that will never take off ❤️

Haha and to think Spez tried to suck Musk's dick a week ago during one of his interviews.

As if the people fleeing reddit's API lockdown would have any interest in this.

I love how all mainstream platforms keep mimicking each other to become exact copies of one another. I wonder if there was a way for platforms to collaborate with each other and interconnect somehow rather than duplicating efforts by copying all features from all other platforms? 🤔

Twitter communities have been around a good while. As in, I even wrote a search app that found new communities as people created them, and people used my app (and other apps) for about a year or so, and then eventually Twitter added that functionality themselves, so I deprecated my app, and then about year or so later, Elon bought Twitter and communities died from lack of use/ support.

In other words, this was around for a while before Elon.

Lol no thanks.

As if the average reddit user would fall for this, Twitter is awful.

Nothing about that sounds inviting or intriguing. They can keep that shit.

Oh now this is fascinating. Especially after spez has been sucking Musty’s dick. He is such a pick-me.

I’m about to grab all kinds of gourmet popcorn to watch the train wrecks coming from these CEOs.

I guess if you were looking for a platform that is run by a large man child, is somehow on shakier ground than Reddit, and will suck then this is good news?

Twitter is a shitty platform especially after it was taken by Elon. No way I'm going there for community-based discussions.

So let me get this straight. Spez makes Elon-inspired changes to Reddit. Spez fucks up his own platform, and then Elon sucks up what leftovers he can?

And on the same day when they fucked up their infrastructure so badly that they had to rate-limit all users. Yeah, okay Elon, you can host my community for me.

If elmo and spez want to cannibalize each other's platforms and burn them to the ground, I'll happily sit by and watch. I got my popcorn. 🍿

Talk about jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

The free market fosters innovation.

The invitation:

If you go for this your dumber than the average bear. Lest we forget, Twitter pioneered screwing over third party devs, twice! Once back in 2012 and then more recently

Joke’s on them. I left Twitter months ago.

They can't handle Twitter and they want to reboot reddit?

lol

I'm part of the F-Zero Twitter community and the most action it gets is from bots that somehow break into the invite only community. (Thanks Elon)

It's a cool idea but suffers from the same kind of insulation of discord, which end up running counter to the openness twitter got popular for.

I'm pretty sure this had launched a bit earlier, but yeah, pretty convenient timing.

Right now, they can't even maintain their Infrastructure because Elon Musk fired more than half of the employees, how will they be able to maintain this?

As much as I hate twitter this is actually a pretty brilliant idea. I’m not going to use it but I understand the business decision. What would make it even better is if they also announced an open API to use it. But they already cut that thread.

Also on the same day that they block people from viewing tweets without logging in. No thanks.

Communities have been part of Twitter for some time, but they haven't pushed it much

Imagine getting schooled on his to run your social media compant by Elon Musk...

Clearing the space for the corpos

Don’t think this will be successful. They might have a large userbase but even spaces didn’t really took of midterm/longterm

Apparently these have been around for a long time, just got noticed when people heard Spez had been taking advice from Elon.

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/testing-communities

Twitter is as bad as the reddit app with its ads, no thanks.

Communities have existed for a while now though, it's not new. It's just been kinda hidden in the UI for quite a few months now. I rarely ever use the feature.

Too bad they suck just as bad, considering, and stopped people without a user account from traversing the site. Bye Mark, Elon and Spez. You will not be missed!

Clearing the space for the corpos

So the axe fell today then? I thought it was tomorrow.

As much as I hate twitter this is actually a pretty brilliant idea. I’m not going to use it but I understand the business decision. What would make it even better is if they also announced an open API to use it. But they already cut that thread.

That's not basically hashtags?

gee, i sure do hope it's full of nazis

This is awesome.

As much as I hate twitter this is actually a pretty brilliant idea. I’m not going to use it but I understand the business decision. What would make it even better is if they also announced an open API to use it. But they already cut that thread.

As much as I hate twitter this is actually a pretty brilliant idea. I’m not going to use it but I understand the business decision.

As much as I hate twitter this is actually a pretty brilliant idea. I’m not going to use it but I understand the business decision. What would make it even better is if they also announced an open API to use it. But they already cut that thread.

As much as I hate twitter this is actually a pretty brilliant idea. I’m not going to use it but I understand the business decision. What would make it even better is if they also announced an open API to use it. But they already cut that thread.